Farrago

  Human family, one of the long lasting and influential systems we go through in our lives, has always intrigued me. Being part of a very conservative, orthodox middle class family could be the source of this intrigue 😀 .. however the intrigue is now on the mode of self-questioning and confusion! I ventured into a new system called ‘family’of my own, like a lot of us do.. hoping the path to take its own journey and leading to its own destination. As I am on this journey now, a lot of, off and on questioning keeps happening- both with regard to myself and the system called ‘family’. A simple definition of a ‘family’ according to me are a group of people living together with the thread of trust binding them and who extend support and care to each other. The reason the two people who began this family, came together could vary from hormones, soul mate kind of love, any other kind of love, friendship, like-mindedness, companionship, or some other need based chemistry. The reasons to s...

Havent really made resolutions for long.. but heres one after many years. I hope to write more often this year, and with no intention of wanting to prove anything or make this world a better place.. .. but just with an expectation of making myself happier because I expressed ‘me’! Writing is a big release for me. I have a hand written ‘To do’ list everyday. One side of the paper will be things related to work and the other half of ‘to dos’ for the house. They are often on equal footing ☺  .. leaving me little time to do anything for myself. So now in the ‘Home’ side of ‘to dos’ I also include what I want to do for myself in the day.. which now includes   ..” write something” ! The aim is to cut off every item on there by the EOD, else it moves on the next days .. ‘To do’! I think there’s a lot of energy one needs to put into the act of ‘talking’. You need to have the context set, you need to have other distractions out, if in a group, you have to be louder than the loudest...